Best Podcast in Baseball 10.06: Are Cardinals risking a June swoon repeat?

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A year after their pitching staff came apart with two injuries and one abbreviated outing at Dodger Stadium to plunge into an innings crisis and June swoon, the Cardinals find themselves ... right back where they were? St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson joins baseball writer Derrick Goold to answer that question and explore history repeating itself at Busch Stadium in a brand new episode of the Best Podcast in Baseball. As June arrives, the Cardinals are again searching for innings from their rotation to avoid a threadbare bullpen, a cascade of troubles, and a swoon that cost them the division a year ago. Have they learned from last year's slow move to address a need? Or, are they putting a lot of stock in the returns of lefty Steven Matz (in June) and Jack Flaherty (by July?). There are options out there. There is even an in-house option or two that the Cardinals continue to find reasons to avoid. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.0	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.0	Call 1-800 by design. That's 1-800 by design.
0:16.0	It's not saying too much to say that Stephen Matz might be the guy who makes or breaks this team.
0:23.4	He was their biggest free agent addition.
0:26.1	He got the longest amount of commitment.
0:28.3	He talked a lot in spring about wanting to be that guy who could give innings.
0:32.3	If they're doubling down on their Matt's bet, saying we can buy time until this guy comes back,
0:37.6	and he comes back and doesn't produce and doesn't carry, that's going to be twice as bad
0:42.9	because you've given up your ability to weather that storm,
0:46.8	and then if those guys don't carry you late, then you've basically done yourself in twice.
0:55.8	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to you by
0:58.9	Clauses by Design.
0:59.9	I'm San Luis Post Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
1:02.1	Join this week once again by the great ubiquitous Ben Fredrickson sports columnist
1:09.6	for the San Luis Post Dispatch.
1:11.6	Ben, let's just start right at the biggest question of all facing the Cardinals coming into this season,
1:18.2	and specifically as June begins.
1:20.9	Did they learn their lesson from last June where their hold on the division slipped away because they had an innings crisis.
1:31.3	Well, hello to you, too. That is a heavy question, but it's a fair one, and it sure feels
1:37.9	like this team is similar to where it was a year ago. I mean, it's deja vu all over again,
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